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Router login dot dev
Was trying to change Wi-Fi password. Came across routerlogin.dev Stupid me for clicking on the suspicious website and the moment I enter that site, my a/v informed me that it has blocked a connect...
NorthandSouth82 wrote:
Was trying to change Wi-Fi password. Came across routerlogin.dev
Various crooked operations have registered routerlogin.net "lookalike" addresses. They are usually there to suck people into calling phone numbers that purport to be Netgear support.
Call one of them and they will try to sell you a support contract, often associated with insisting that you need a firewall for protection.
This is nonsense and can be dangerous if you allow them to access your network.
We see takes of woe as people turn up here and accuse Netgear of conning them. In reality, the culprit is Google, which guided them in the wrong direction.
Visiting those sites hasn't, as far as I can recall, resulted in any direct damage. You have to take the bait and place that call for bad things to happen.